The burden of care that her father had to bear was too much for his age and strength, and he was prostrated with keen sufferings. Surely then, if the daughter had a sensitive spot in her heart, she could not help feeling and arousing to a sense of her duty to share the burdens of her sister and her sister’s husband. But she revealed by her indifference, and by shunning all the care and burden that she well could, that her heart was well-nigh as unimpressible as a stone. {3T 231.1}

Den byrde af bekymringer som hendes far havde at bære var for meget til hans alder og styrke og han blev lammet med stærke smerter. Hvis datteren havde et sårbart område i sit hjerte, kunne hun, uden tvivl, ophjælpes og vækkes til pligtsfølelse og dele sin søsters og hendes søsters mands byrder. Men ved sin ligegyldighed og ved at undgå alle de bekymringer og byrder som hun ligeså godt kunne tage, afslørede hun at hendes hjerte var lige så lidt påvirkelig som en sten.